Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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Criterion Collection: Something Wild | Blu-ray Review

Love means never having to say you’re sorry, or so we were told by Ali McGraw in Arthur Hiller’s famous 1970 adaptation of the...

Criterion Collection: Fox and His Friends | Blu-ray Review

To revisit Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends in 2017, some forty years after its 1975 release, is to realize how unnervingly astute...

The Birth of a Nation | Blu-ray Review

Around this time a year ago, Nate Parker’s Sundance Award Winning directorial debut The Birth of a Nation was a surefire bet to be...

We Are the Flesh | Review

Live Flesh: Minter’s Perverts the Shadows in the Cave with Delirious Debut Director Emiliano Rocha Minter (who was the still photographer on Gerardo Naranjo’s 2011...

The Bye Bye Man | Review

Baby Bye Bye Bye…Bye Bye: Title’s Derivative Boogeyman Can’t Quite Turn Up the Terror “Don’t think it, don’t say it,” may be the ironic takeaway...

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Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili – April

After making its debut at the Venice Film Festival...

Exclusive Trailer: The American Dream is Pure Fantasy in Nellie Kluz’s ‘The Dells’

Selected for showcases at the 2024 Visions du Réel,...

2025 Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Section Say Oui to Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes’

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid was tipped as a last...

Puissant Paris: Huppert, Efira, Cassel, Niney & Adam Bessa Topline Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’

Megawatt quintet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre...
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